Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

When grief strikes, words may flood the page uncontrollably. Is hypergraphia a path to healing or a relentless force?

The Any Day Now creative writing series, in honor of Philadelphia poet Larry Neal, starts Saturday. It's a project of the Friends of the Tanner House and the Strawberry Mansion Learning Center.

February is National Haiku Writing Month. The website nahaiwrimo.com urges us to write one haiku a day for the month of February. "Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s ...

It is time to note that Remember Tenderness and The Jeweller of Night, the said two recent volumes which Kraftgriots and Mosuro Publishers, two Ibadan-based publishers, respectively issued, consist of ...

I’ve only met a few people with superhuman charm. Someone for whom the soppy cliches are everyday realities; they light up a ...

Sugar Hill Gang hit the airwaves, Black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar was crafting verses that could rival the best of them.

I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon. ‘Excuse me,’ I said. ‘I thought ...

The spacious skies that moved Katharine Lee Bates to begin writing a poem she would call “America the Beautiful,” while ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

When I wrote the following short, short story and poem version of the same event, I was trying to show my creative writing students how to create poetry from their ...

Mary Ellen Capek, Lou Liberty and Juan J. Morales, three poets you may not have heard of, have recently published collections ...